Alone

I pray in my own Gethsemane, far from my Saviour’s tomb.
I’m down on my knees as I sob my pleas, alone in a dim lit room.

Though the blood doesn’t pour from my every pore. like my Saviour shed for me,
The tears it seems, shed their steady streams, from my eyes that no longer see.

It takes times like this, then it happens: a broken heart is made whole.
His love is felt, by the words that melt the ice from a troubled soul.

He speaks to me at length of strength, and a time so long ago,
When he offered free his gift to me, and I feel my spirit glow.

When I rise with the dawn, my trials are gone, and I feel the warmth of his light.
The sins of my past are forgiven at last, and are left with the dark of the night.

-Doug Garrett

Reaching Out

I passed him waiting by his cart. “God Bless you friend,” I heard him say. 
His smile was warm, not like my heart. How easy beggars like to pray.

When I have prayed for God to hear, to help parched and withered grain,
His voice came not, nor was he near. All by itself came needed rain. 

Thrice I had prayed to see again those who I loved, long passed away.
But sick and poor were all that came. How could I have such people stay?

So I have worked with eyes down turned and gleaned alone by sweat of brow.
All which, by rights was mine, I earned! But oh, the lonely silence now.

“Your God is foreign to my eyes.” This time the old man heard my chide.
“My son, I heard each time your cries. My outstretched hand was swept aside.”

-Doug Garrett